Gennady Mesyats

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Citizenship USSR Russia Name Gennady Mesyats Nationality Russian Role Physicist		Fields Physics of plasma Residence Moscow, Russia Doctoral advisor Lev Sena Awards Global Energy Prize

Born 29 February 1936 (age 88) Kemerovo, Russia ( 1936-02-29 ) Institutions Lebedev Physical Institute Alma mater Tomsk Polytechnic University Education Tomsk Polytechnic University Books Pulsed Electrical Discharge in Vacuum

Gennady Andreyevich Mesyats (Russian: Месяц, Геннадий Андреевич, February 29, 1936, Kemerovo, Russia) is a Russian physicist, founder of several scientific schools — high-current electronics and pulse electrophysics, one of the acknowledged world leaders in these areas. He has been a vice-president of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1987 and a director of the Lebedev Physical Institute since 2004.

He was announced as the recipient of the IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award for 2012.

Honours and awards

Gold and silver medal, a diploma of honour of the USSR Exhibition of Economic Achievements

Order of Lenin (1986)

Order of the Badge of Honour (1976)

Order of the Red Banner of Labour (1971)

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 2nd class (2006), 3rd class (1999) and 4th class (1996)

Jubilee Medal "For Valiant Labour. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Lenin" (1970)

Gold Medal of Academician NN Moiseev (2000s).

Honour of the Komsomol (1960)

Lenin Komsomol Prize (1968)

USSR State Prize (1978)

Winner of the State Prize of the Russian Federation for Science and Technology (1998)

Laureate of the USSR Council of Ministers (1990)

Dyke Award (1990),

Demidov Prize (2002)

Global Energy Prize (2003)

Honorary Citizen of the Tomsk Oblast

Honorary citizen of Yekaterinburg

Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur (France, 2008)

Order of Honour (2011)

References

Gennady Mesyats Wikipedia

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